Roglic extends Giro lead over Yates after late crashes split peloton

Richard Carapaz held off Caleb Ewan to win stage fourBritain's Simon Yates limited his losses to Giro d'Italia leader Primoz Roglic after crashes split the race in a dramatic finale to stage four.Roglic made it into a small front group following a series of crashes with 6km to go before Ecuador's Richard Carapaz attacked late on to win in Frascati.Yates was brought down in the last crash but chased back to lose only 16 seconds to Roglic and stay in second.Tom Dumoulin, the 2017 champion, fell heavily and finished four minutes down."Everyone was fighting for position on a roundabout with 6km to go and a rider slid out in front of me," Mitchelton-Scott rider Yates told Eurosport."I'm not blaming anyone, these things happen, but I got up quickly and had the guys around me to limit the losses."My hip is sore, my left hand side is really, but I'm OK - it's always worse in the morning so we'll see but the Giro is long."Yates is now 35 seconds down on Slovenian Roglic in the overall standings, with Italian Vincenzo Nibali four seconds back in third.Stage four results1. Richard Carapaz (Ecu/Movistar) 5hrs 58mins 17secs2. Caleb Ewan (Aus/Lotto-Soudal) Same time3. Diego Ulissi (Ita/UAE Team Emirates)4. Pascal Ackermann (Ger/Bora-Hansgrohe) +2secs5. Florian Senechal (Fra/Deceuninck-Quick-Step) Same time6. Primoz Roglic (Slo/Team Jumbo-Visma)7. Valerio Conti (Ita/UAE Team Emirates) +14secs8. Miguel Angel Lopez (Col/Astana) +18secs9. Arnaud Demare (Fra/Groupama-FDJ) Same time10. Simon Yates (GB/Mitchelton-Scott)General classification after stage four1. Primoz Roglic (Slo/Team Jumbo-Visma) 16hrs 19mins 20secs2. Simon Yates (GB/Mitchelton-Scott) +35secs3. Vincenzo Nibali (Ita/Bahrain - Merida) +39secs4. Miguel Angel Lopez (Col/Astana Pro Team) +44secs5. Diego Ulissi (Ita/UAE Team Emirates) Same time6. Rafal Majka (Pol/Bora-Hansgrohe) +49secs7. Bauke Mollema (Ned/Trek-Segafredo) +55secs8. Damiano Caruso (Ita/Bahrain-Merida) +56secs9. Bob Jungels (Lux/Deceuninck-Quick-Step) +1min 02secs10. Davide Formolo (Ita/Bora-Hansgrohe) +1min 06secs

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